J. C. Watts Quotes
My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I am proud of what I've done.
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
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My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance. Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.
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I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.
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Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.
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I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily written and lovely and not too revealing. I went to her book launch and met her editor who said 'why don't you think about it? You can do it however you want, based on your characters or you.'
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The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
